 | 1804 - 372 pages
...manner as they may think proper. , II. That Government being instituted for the common benefit, the doctrine of non-resistance against arbitrary power...and oppression, is absurd, slavish, and destructive to the good and happiness of mankind. III. That a!l men have a natural and indefeasible right to worship... | |
 | United States federal convention - 1819 - 524 pages
...ought to be instituted for the, common benefit, protection, and security of the people , and that the doctrine of non-resistance against arbitrary power...and oppression is absurd, slavish, and destructive to the good and happiness of mankind. iv. That no man or set of men, are entitled to exclusive or separate... | |
 | Robert James Turnbull - 1827 - 180 pages
...fine passage in the Constitutions of New-Hampshire, and other States; "The doctrine of Nan Resistance against arbitrary power and oppression, is absurd,...destructive of the good and happiness of mankind." To the third, I offer a sincere request, that they would look a little more towards home. South-Carolina... | |
 | 1828 - 494 pages
...power and oppression, is ahsurd, slavish, and destructive of the good and happiness"of mankind. 5. That the right, in the people, to participate in the legislature, is the hest security of liherty, and the foundation of all free government; for this purpose, elections ought... | |
 | Tennessee. Constitutional Convention - 1834 - 430 pages
...manner as they may think proper. SEC. 2. That government being instituted for the common benefit, the doctrine of non-resistance against arbitrary power...and oppression, is absurd, slavish and destructive to the good and happiness of mankind. SEC. 3. That all men have a natural and indefeasible right to... | |
 | Joseph Martin, William Henry Brockenbrough - 1835 - 644 pages
...ought to be instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security of the people ; and that the doctrine of non-resistance against arbitrary power...and oppression, is absurd, slavish, and destructive to the good and happiness of mankind. 1^, That no man or set of men are entitled to exclusive or separate... | |
 | Jonathan Elliot - 1836 - 686 pages
...ought to be instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security of the people ; and that the doctrine of non-resistance against arbitrary power...and oppression is absurd, slavish, and destructive to the good and happiness of mankind. " 4th. That no man or set of men are entitled to separate or... | |
 | George Washington Frost Mellen - 1841 - 452 pages
...ought to be instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security of the people, and that the doctrine of non-resistance against arbitrary power...and oppression is absurd, slavish, and destructive to the good and happiness of mankind." 2 " 9. That no freeman ought to be taken, imprisoned, or disseized,... | |
 | 1842 - 712 pages
...ineffectual, the people may, and of right ought to, reform the old, or establish a new government. The doctrine of non-resistance against arbitrary power...destructive of the good and happiness of mankind." THE CONSTITUTION OF VIRGINIA. — "A declaration of rights made by the representatives of the good... | |
 | 1847 - 800 pages
...ineffectual, the people may, and of right ought to reform the old, or establish a new government; the doctrine of non-resistance against arbitrary power...destructive of the good and happiness of mankind." Well may the learned author of the Primacy exclaim : " There is a strong affinity between republicanism... | |
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Wherefore, whenever the ends of Government are perverted, and public liberty manifestly endangered, and all other means of redress are ineffectual, the People may, and of right ought to reform the old, or establish a new Government, the doctrine of nonresistance... 
